Photos of the Day 08/24

A hippopotamus calf swims near her mother, Kathi, in the zoo in Berlin on Tuesday. Thomas Peter/Reuters

Students holding toy guns prepare for a parade for students visiting from Hong Kong at Jiangtaiwa primary school, a school for children of migrant laborers in Beijing, on Tuesday. Jason Lee/Reuters

William Hartley and his dog Louis Vuitton leave a Pardons and Paroles hearing in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied early release to Juan Daniels of Montgomery, whose sentence last year was a record in Alabama for animal cruelty. Daniels, who had set Louis Vuitton on fire, will be eligible for parole again in July 2012. Dave Martin/AP

A vintage concert poster depicting the late musician Jimi Hendrix, is seen in a exhibition at the Handel House Museum, in central London's Mayfair area on Tuesday. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix both moved to Britain and changed the face of music, one with a harpsichord and a composer's pen, the other with an electric guitar, the AP writes. They also shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Now, 40 years after Hendrix's death, a new exhibition about his London years brings these two unlikely neighbors together. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Nzamburba, who is a member of a pygmy community, wears the skin of a wild cat on his head in Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, on Tuesday. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

A Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) train moves over a bridge built over the River Yamuna that is overflowing in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday. Ceaseless rain and the release of water from the northern Indian state of Haryana continue to flood the low-lying areas of the capital, local media reported. Adnan Abidi/Reuters

In this photo taken with a surveillance camera and provided by the Schoenbrunn Zoo, female giant panda Yang Yang holds her newborn cub in an enclosed compound in Vienna on Monday. Schoenbrunn Zoo/AP

Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the Al Shabab militia, speaking in Mogadisu, Somalia, said that members of the group's "special forces" had carried out the attack against those "aiding the infidels," in the attacks on Tuesday. Mohamed Olad Hassan/AP

Hong Kong citizens request explanations during a protest outside the local Philippine Consulate General on Tuesday, alleging the Philippine government mishandled the bus hijacking on Monday that ended with the gunman killing eight Hong Kong tourists. Kin Cheung/AP

The moon hangs low in the sky in the early morning hours of Tuesday in Salem, Ore. Kobbi R. Blair/Stateman-Journal/AP

This undated image from a study by Berkeley Lab researchers shows microbes (c.) degrading oil (upper r.) in the deepwater plume from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A Manhattan-sized plume of oil spewed deep into the Gulf of Mexico by BP's broken well is being consumed by a newly discovered species of microbes, scientists reported. Hoi-Ying Holman Group/Reuters

A Pakistani family disembarks from a helicopter after being evacuated from the village of Quba Saed Khan due to quickly rising flood waters near Shadad Kot, Pakistan, on Tuesday. The Pakistani Army evacuated dozens of residents, who said they had mostly run out of food and water, from the village to prevent them from being stranded. Kevin Frayer/AP

A relative of a miner trapped in an underground copper and gold mine arranges a flag on a hill outside the mine at Copiapo, Chile, on Tuesday. Rescuers sent Chilean miners, who are still alive 18 days after a cave-in, supplies of saline and glucose through a narrow drill hole on Monday, and now face a months-long, half-mile dig to free them. Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

Marie Naperkowski, the only campaign volunteer, sits outside a Riviera Beach, Fla., polling station on Tuesday as she campaigned for Lisa Small. J. Pat Carter/AP

Members of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force go down from a UH-60JA helicopter during an annual live-fire exercise and demonstration at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, Japan, on Tuesday. Koji Sasahara/AP

I am Big Brother. I run a surveillance program the likes of which George Orwell could have only dreamed of. I have a minute-by-minute account of how my subjects spend their time, and an iron grip on their sources of information. With a single switch, I can cut off access to the outside world.